can you reload steel cases ?

[Chuckdog]

If I simply couldn't find brass to load, then I can't say it wouldn't be worth a try. I can say if I did, it would be in last ditch desperation.

I think too much of my dies and my firearms to use any steel case period.

 

[Clarke123]

If I simply couldn't find brass to load, then I can't say it wouldn't be worth a try. I can say if I did, it would be in last ditch desperation.

I think too much of my dies and my firearms to use any steel case period.

AND: My eyes, fingers, hands, plus I'm already ugly enough without having parts of my face re-arranged by a KABOOM!

 

[Flashover16]

Tula is selling berdan primers so people can reload Euro rounds

I think those berdan primers are targeted at people that enjoy sticking Ice Picks through thier hands!
both would be about equally painful to me!
I mean i got a lot of better stuff to do than sit around with a beer can opener trying to pry primers out of a case to reload it!-LOL
Unless someone has designed a new method of decapping?

 

[tv_racin_fan]

I think those berdan primers are targeted at people that enjoy sticking Ice Picks through thier hands!
both would be about equally painful to me!
I mean i got a lot of better stuff to do than sit around with a beer can opener trying to pry primers out of a case to reload it!-LOL
Unless someone has designed a new method of decapping?

There is a hydraulic decapper. One you dcapped it why not convert it to the other style and drive on?

 

[Clarke123]

For those who like to take a walk on the Far Side, here's some stuff from the internet on Berdan Priming:

I too looked into it primarily for reloading BRASS Berdan Primed cases; Bottom Line: It isn't worth the effort
unless you cannot find the cases anywhere else (as in something really rare!)

http://parallaxscurioandrelicfirear...-to-Boxer-Conversion-Method.html#.UEn6j42PUgg

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthr...-Berdan-Primers-how-to-seat-them-Special-Tool

http://www.dave-cushman.net/shot/berdan_supplies_dimensions.html

 

[EMC45]

All the steel cases I reloaded were Boxer primed.

 

[Twitch2120]

There is a hydraulic decapper. One you dcapped it why not convert it to the other style and drive on?

uh...ever seen a berdan primer?

 

[dondon48]

If I simply couldn't find brass to load, then I can't say it wouldn't be worth a try. I can say if I did, it would be in last ditch desperation.

I think too much of my dies and my firearms to use any steel case period.

always fascinated when people think a soft steel case is going to somehow damage their rifle...

 

[Chuckdog]

always fascinated when people think a soft steel case is going to somehow damage their rifle...

My carbines, my choice. Your stuff, your choice. Why does what I do bother anyone? My choices don't affect you or anyone else in any way?

People buy premium AR's and shoot the cheapest **** they can find in them? That doesn't bother me. It's their stuff. I build most of mine and people run them down? I roll fine quality handloads for each one of mine. I don't care what others think. Why do you?

 

[tv_racin_fan]

uh...ever seen a berdan primer?

uuh guess I wasn't thinkin there sir thanks for the heads up.

In any event steel cases can be reloaded. AND if they have them bad primers they can be converted over to the good ones or so I understand as I aint ever tried to.